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The Places of Galatians

Galatians names 9 places; Jerusalem, Arabia and Mount Sinai most often. 9 of them can be put on a map, 8 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of From Egypt to Persia with the places named in Galatians. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E25°N30°N35°N40°NJerusalemMount SinaiAntiochDamascusJerusalemArabiaMount SinaiAntiochCiliciaDamascusGalatiaN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Egypt to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Galatians

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Jerusalem1:17, 1:18, 2:1, 4:25, 4:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Arabia1:17, 4:25OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Sinai4:24, 4:25OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 463)
Antioch2:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Cilicia1:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Damascus1:17OpenBible.infoHigh
Galatia1:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Judea1:22OpenBible.infoHigh
Syria1:21OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.